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"Can I touch you..."
I know that when this blog features an adult contemporary ballad like this, you just love making fun of it. But don't laugh too hard. After one of our top 40 stations went away, local radio fell into a deep malaise, and our remaining top 40 station seemed determined to play this record many times per day. And it had a long tail there before it became a lost hit, as they still occasionally played it a couple years later.
It wasn't specifically this song that I had the gravest objections to, but rather the broader practices of our local radio stations. The fact that our stations became so sluggish was beyond aggravating. You should have seen what I had to deal with in daily life, and I wasn't even safe from it at home, in part because radio was instituting narrower playlists to appeal to those with short attention spans.
But "Never Thought" did provide a positive contribution to broadcasting - with the help of Steve Hawkins of Q-102. One evening, Steve introduced this record like normal. The song began with the unintentionally hilarious opening line: "Can I touch you..."
Then Steve broke in and declared, "No, you can't, get your hands off of me!"
Now that was funny!
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